A fisherman’s camera caught a giant squid doing something science has never documented. The crew was hauling lines in deep water when the creature surfaced, and what it did next sent shockwaves through the vessel.
In December 2025, a fisherman off the coast of southern Japan filmed two giant squid at the ocean surface in daylight, with one apparently feeding on the other. The footage, posted online under the handle Yon Morikota, was notable because healthy giant squid almost never appear at the surface, and observing one actively feeding is rarer still.Giant squid have been known to science for centuries wi…
Something Bigger Than The Kraken Is Living In The Mariana Trench Scientists just recorded a strange sound deep in the Mariana Trench—over seven miles down. Initial analysis suggests the acoustic signature doesn’t match any known marine species.
The legend of the Kraken, a massive sea creature said to drag entire ships beneath the waves, has been traced by scientists to the real existence of the giant squid. For centuries, stories from Scandinavian sailors described an animal large enough to be mistaken for an island. While many historians dismissed these accounts as exaggeration, the discovery of enormous squid specimens in the 1800s pro…